Ecuadorian Congresswoman Paola Vintimilla led dozens of protesters outside the Presidential Palace in Quito, on Wednesday, to call on Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno to revoke Ecuadorian citizenship from WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
At least a hundred supporters of Ecuador's last President Rafael Correa also gathered outside the Presidential Palace with photos of Julian Assange to counter-protest in support for the whistleblower, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for the last six years.
"I came here to demand President Lenin Moreno to annul the Ecuadorian citizenship given to Julian Assange. Irregularities occurred, too much money was used, this is a person who disrespected the Embassy in London, and all the people working there," said Congresswoman Vintimilla.
"He has played soccer inside, he has a cat defecating everywhere and he has not had any rules. One of the reasons he should have been expelled from the embassy years ago is because of interference in other countries political issues. He did it with Spain, with the US, and our own," she added.
Counter-protester and supporter of Julian Assange, Jorge Saavedra, said that he thinks Assange's life is in danger, adding that "after exposing all the information of the international bourgeoisie's sins to the world, he will not be absolved. The same as Snowden."
On Monday, a judge in Quito ruled against Assange's request to loosen new requirements that the whistleblower claims are meant to push him into leaving his asylum in the Ecuadorian Embassy.
Assange was first granted refuge by Ecuador 2012 while on bail over sexual assault allegations against him in Sweden. He feared extradition to the United States.
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SOT, Paola Vintimilla, Congresswoman (Spanish): "I came here to demand President Lenin Moreno to annul the Ecuadorian citizenship given to Julian Assange. Irregularities occurred, too much money was used, this is a person who disrespected the Embassy in London, and all the people working there. He has played soccer inside, he has a cat defecating everywhere and he has not had any rules. One of the reasons he should have been expelled from the embassy years ago is because of interference in other countries political issues. He did it with Spain, with the US, and our own."
SOT, Jorge Saavedra, Supporter of Citizen's Revolution (Spanish): "After exposing all the information of the international bourgeoisie's sins to the world, he will not be absolved. The same as Snowden and others who dared to say things that are 'not to be said'. So I think his [Assange's] life is in danger."
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Frank Holmes, CEO of US Global Investors, joins us to discuss bullish developments occurring in commodities and the TSX Venture exchange. Certain phenomenon such as the nearing of a golden cross, developments with the PMI, and a mixture of the fear trade and love trade from the East all spell an upward trend coming for commodities.
Frank thinks we can expect a nice, long, slow move up that is both constructive and positive. He points out that in three decades, there have only been three times, that gold stocks have fallen for three years in a row.
According to Frank, there are two big demands for gold that should be appreciated -- the fear trade and the love trade. Frank states that the fear trade has to do with real interest rates that the government is paying. The other sixty percent of demand is what Frank characterizes as the love trade. The love trade occurs in places like India & China that give gold as a gifts.
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Frank E. Holmes is chief executive and chief investment officer at U.S. Global Investors, which specializes in natural resources and emerging markets investing. U.S. Global, based in San Antonio, TX, manages 13 U.S. mutual funds and other client accounts. Holmes is co-author of the book "The Goldwater: Demystifying Gold Investing." He has written investment articles for investment-focused publications, and is a regular contributor to a number of investor-education websites and he maintains an investment blog, "Frank Talk."
He is a regular commentator on the business television channels CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox Business Channel, CNN's Your Money, and he has been profiled by Barron's, Fortune Magazine, the Financial Times and other publications.